everything is new (elio & oliver)

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“Smells and sounds I’d grown up with and known every year of my life until then had suddenly turned on me and acquired an inflection forever colored by the events of that summer.”

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Spoilers for the film Call Me By Your Name.

So, I read the novel this film is based on back in 2017 and after learning it was to be adapted into a movie, I waited nearly a year in anticipation for it. After finally seeing it in December, I had some mixed feelings about it. I found the film to be quietly captivating and visually mesmerizing, but lacking some of the more explicitly presented themes in the book. So much is said in its subtlety, but so much of that can also be lost on viewers—I think, at least—if they aren’t already familiar with the book.

That being said, I don’t mean to imply that this film doesn’t stand as an outstanding achievement on its own, because it certainly does, but I just think that book adaptations are always tricky and anyone who’s read Call Me By Your Name can certainly understand why it might be a particularly difficult text to adapt.

But one of the overarching themes in both the film and novel is the notion that for Elio, his desires, experiences, and the way he perceives the world around him have forever been shaped by the events of his summer with Oliver. Those few weeks had afforded them both so many new experiences but at the same time, made all Elio was already familiar with—the sights, sounds, tastes, and all the mundanities of every summer he’d ever experienced in that house, suddenly become new.

With this rather long but lyrically sparse song choice, I tried to draw on some of these ideas. I’m not entirely confident about the final result (which seems to be the case with everything I upload of late) and I know that the first half is rather lethargic, but I think the film is this way as well.

I did feel a bit weird leaving out the obligatory “call me by your name” scene, but it honestly just didn’t have a place in this vid and I don’t see this as being my last anyway.

I finally want to thank briony (brionyx509) for helping me find a working HD link to this film.

Okay, ramble over now! I do hope this video is enjoyable for some. Thank you if you made it to the end of this.

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Film: Call Me By Your Name
Song: at the end of the video
Program: Adobe Premiere Pro CC

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